6,27 Farming Today
6.45 Prayer for the Day
6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
7.0 News
The world this morning
Introduced by John Timpson and Douglas Cameron
7.40 Today's Pepers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
8.0 News and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia Regional Extra; and Today in the South and West Introduced by DEREK JONES ) VHF East Anglia: see below 8-40 Today's Papers
An Act of Worship
Christian Challenge - Tom Dooley
Introduced by RALPH ROLLS
Devised to help listeners identify the songs and sounds of the birds about them.
Presented by TERRY GOMPERTZ Producer MADEAU STEWART
9-35 Hello Again! 3: The Two Boxes retold by MARGERY MORRIS
9.45 Music Workshop 1
The Bluebird Line by PAUL JENNINGS and NEIL BUTTERWORTH
NEM p 26; Alone thou goest forth, 0 Lord (BBC HB 79); Psalm 31; 1 Corinthians 2, vv 1-11 (NEB); Lord of our life (BBC HB 179)
10.30 Voix de France
13: L'assistante sociale compiled by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE (Sixth Form French)
16.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY 3: Repeating Patterns
11.0 Quest
1 When things go wrong by ROBERT RIETTY
11.20 Listening and Writing
His Excellency: the dervish story by IDRIES SHAH , adapted as a radio play by DAVID WADE Producer DICKON REED
11.40 Prospect. Oneself. The psychologist in school and college: compiled by LESLIE SMITH
12.0 Announcements
Presenter John Edmunds Your Own Time
Rallycross: NIGEL MURPHY visits a meeting and reports on this popular sport.
How does your garden grow?: XENIA FIELD tells JEANINE MCMULLEN how to prepare her windowboxes for the spring.
VHF South West: see column 1
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Lonely Typewriter by LOUISE M. EATON
2.0 Let's Join In. The Dragon's Tail, by JOHN MARKS
2.2* Christian Focus: At Home by BARRY TURNER
2.35 Interlude
2.40 Guitar School: introduced by MICHAEL JESSETT (23)
Selected for Friday
Persons from Porlock
This Is the last radio play written and oroduced by Louis MacNeice
I People have invited me along and I always make a point of being there. In Wookey Hole-in the Trou de la Creuse - excuse my accent, it's because I come from Porlock.'
Coleridge was interrupted in the writing of ' Kubla Khan. ' We all have our own Persons from Porlock to excuse our failure to finish a masterpiece. *
A chance to hear again some of the best one-hour plays broadcast in recent years.
A selection of listeners' letters Introduced by DAVID JACOBS
The book by Helen Griffiths
Read by Yvette Rees
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM*s reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The Final
Cheadle Hulme School Cheshire v
Cardinal Vaughan School London
(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)
Jacky Gillott presenting world news and views
Deputy editor VINCENT DUGGLEBY Editor BRIAN BLISS
NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV.
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Research by JEAN STROUD
Producer Richard BURWOOD
(Repeated: Saturday, 4.30 pm)
A spontaneous discussion by Baroness Wootton Russell Braddon Lord David Cecil Anthony Lewis
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Swanage, Dorset
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? should be sent to Any
Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Two programmes about the Middle East by Ian McIntyre
Wars and rumours of wars tend to distract attention from the fact that Israel's neighbours have problems inside their own borders.
Ian McIntyre has just returned from the Middle East, and in the first of two programmes he examines some of the domestic preoccupations of the so-called confrontation states of Egypt, Syria and Jordan.
(Next week: The World Outside)
Douglas Stuart reporting
A foreign journalist based in London looks at a subject of interest in Britain this week.
The Walking Stick by WINSTON GRAHAM abridged by PAUL HUMPHREYS
Read by YSANNE CHURCHMAN (15) Producer JAMES GALLAGHER (from Birmingham)
DAVID JASON. BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCCUFFIE at the piano look back at the week's news and illustrate the funny side. Script by PETER SPENCE Producers SIMON BRETT and DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Saturday, 5.30 pm)
preceded by Weather
11.59 Market Trends
